US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on March 25 for "Irrigation and aspiration device for cataract surgery" (Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,186, issued on March 25, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Irrigation and aspiration device for cataract surgery" was invented by Albert S. Jun (Baltimore), Joaquin Octavio De Rojas (Baltimore), Jan McGlumphy (Baltimore) and Todd Richmond (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspiration device to be used with an irrigation-aspiration handpiece may comprise a curved body having a radius of curvature based on a human equatorial lens diameter, an interface adapted to attach the curved body to a first end of an aspiration lumen in the irrigation-aspiration handpiece, and multiple aspiration ports fo...